Diabetes - Royal Blackburn hospital quiz

By Value hunter on Mar 6, 2015 | In In real life

Diabetes UK (http://www.diabetes.org.uk) list the symptoms of diabetes as;

* passing urine more often than usual, especially at night
* increased thirst
* extreme tiredness
* unexplained weight loss
* genital itching or regular episodes of thrush
* slow healing of cuts or wounds
* blurred vision

Royal Blackburn hospital staff admitted a patient with all but one of these symptoms.
Royal Blackburn hospital staff tested the patient's blood sugar levels, they got a result of 19.6

Did Royal Blackburn hospital staff...

A. Alert the consultant of the clear symptoms and result of diabetes and retest to confirm?

B. Alert the consultant/staff on the ward the person is sent to and make sure patient is retested/treated?

or C. Alert no one, do nothing about the symptoms/treatment, apart from write the result in the notes and leave it?

Royal Blackburn hospital staff chose C.

Royal Blackburn hospital staff CHOSE to ignore all the obvious symptoms, CHOSE not to retest and diagnosed "terminal cachexia" instead, without any tests being carried out!
Regardless of NICE guidelines!

What would you do?